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Bill Special license plates; highway safety. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of highway safety, including awareness of distracted driving. The bill exempts the plate from the requirement to obtain 450 prepaid applications prior to issuance and from the provision that prohibits issuance of additional plates in the series if, after five or more years after issuance, the plate has fewer than 200 active sets of plates. Additionally, the plate shall be subject only to a one-time fee of $10 at the time the plates are issued, in addition to the prescribed cost of state license plates. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2017 HB 1763 Virginia HB 1763 (2017)
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Virginia HB 1763 (2017) — Special license plates; highway safety.

Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of highway safety, including awareness of distracted driving. The bill exempts the plate from the requirement to obtain 450 prepaid applications prior to issuance and from the provision that prohibits issuance of additional plates in the series if, after five or more years after issuance, the plate has fewer than 200 active sets of plates. Additionally, the plate shall be subject only to a one-time fee of $10 at the time the plates are issued, in addition to the prescribed cost of state license plates.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1763ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103057D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Transportation with amendments — 130 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Transportation — 220 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 390 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed Senate with amendments — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 970 (pass) · legislature
  • Senate amendments agreed to by House — 990 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Thomas A. "Tag" Greason — primary (person)
  • Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
  • Richard L. Anderson — cosponsor (person)
  • Ronald A. Villanueva — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2017-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103057D introduction
  • 2017-01-09 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
  • 2017-01-27 Read first time reading-1
  • 2017-01-30 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2017-01-31 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2017-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2017-02-01 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
  • 2017-02-13 Read third time reading-3
  • 2017-02-13 Reading of amendments waived
  • 2017-02-13 Committee amendments agreed to
  • 2017-02-13 Engrossed by Senate as amended
  • 2017-02-15 Placed on Calendar
  • 2017-02-15 Senate amendments agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
  • 2017-02-17 Enrolled
  • 2017-02-17 Signed by Speaker
  • 2017-02-20 Signed by President
  • 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
  • 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
  • 2017-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 272 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4f172edd-2b5b-4ee9-89cc-5c0a0b2293eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).